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بهر نان شخصی سوی نانوا دوید ** داد جان چون حسن نانوا را بدید 2785
- A person ran to the baker for bread: on seeing the beauty of the baker, he gave up the ghost.
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بهر فرجه شد یکی تا گلستان ** فرجهی او شد جمال باغبان
- A certain man went to the rose-garden to take his pleasure, and found it in the beauty of the gardener,
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همچو اعرابی که آب از چه کشید ** آب حیوان از رخ یوسف چشید
- Like the desert Arab who drew water from the well and tasted the Water of Life from the (lovely) face of Joseph.
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رفت موسی کاتش آرد او به دست ** آتشی دید او که از آتش برست
- Moses went to fetch fire: he beheld such a Fire (the Burning Bush) that he escaped from (searching after) fire.
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جست عیسی تا رهد از دشمنان ** بردش آن جستن به چارم آسمان
- Jesus sprang up, to escape from his enemies: that spring carried him to the Fourth Heaven.
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دام آدم خوشهی گندم شده ** تا وجودش خوشهی مردم شده 2790
- The ear of wheat became a trap for Adam, so that his existence became the wheat-ear (seed and origin) of mankind.
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باز آید سوی دام از بهر خور ** ساعد شه یابد و اقبال و فر
- The falcon comes to the snare for food: it finds the fore-arm (wrist) of the King and fortune and glory.
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طفل شد مکتب پی کسب هنر ** بر امید مرغ با لطف پدر
- The child went to school to acquire knowledge, in hope of (getting) its father's pretty bird (as a prize);
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پس ز مکتب آن یکی صدری شده ** ماهگانه داده و بدری شده
- Then, by (going to) school, that child rose to the top, paid monthly fees (to his teacher), and became perfect (in knowledge).
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آمده عباس حرب از بهر کین ** بهر قمع احمد و استیز دین
- ‘Abbás had come to war for vengeance’ sake, for the purpose of subduing Ahmad (Mohammed) and opposing the (true) religion: